Juliet Jacobson designs educational and humanities web sites. She has been an interactive media designer since 1986, after receiving her M.F.A. in design from Yale. After graduate school, she worked in New York City designing custom multimedia applications for clients such as the Museum of Modern Art and IBM, customer service terminals for Citibank, and palm-top prototype software for Apple Computer. Then, as Design Director for the Interactive Group at WGBH, Boston's PBS station, she focused on educational software for schools and consumer CD ROMs for the home market. Since 1995, Juliet has been an independent interactive media designer, working primarily on web sites. From 1993 to 2001 Juliet was a regular Lecturer in Graphic Design in Yale University's School of Art, teaching graduate students how to design for interactive media.

Projects
The following are descriptions of several projects Juliet has designed. On each project, she contributed overall concept development, content structure and navigation and interface design.

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 - 2002-2004, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
This site offers an interface solution to providing multiple perspectives on a controversial historical event. Interactive illustrations and maps engage the visitor while artifacts, primary documents, a timeline and essays provide depth and context.
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Dodson Associates - 2002, Dodson Associates, Ltd.
Visitors can easily view and print out over forty projects by this landscape architecture firm as well as obtain information about its services and personnel.
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American Centuries - 1999 ­ 2002, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
This site offers a searchable database of over 1,700 historical artifacts and documents. Each artifact is interpreted and viewable with a zoom-in feature that lets visitors closely examine it. The site also includes lesson plans, interactive activities, and many other interpretive features.
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Russell Project Web Site - 2000, Christopher Russell, ceramicist
An online portfolio showcasing the custom ceramic tiles and installations of a ceramic artist and tile-maker.
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DoHistory - 1998 ­ 2000, Harvard University, Film Study Center
An award-winning site that is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book, "A Midwife's Tale" by Harvard historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. The site reproduces the 18th century, 1400 page Midwife's diary in its entirety, (both in facsimile and fully transcribed) allowing visitors to explore it for themselves. Activities and presentations teach how to "read" the artifacts of the past to create one's own interpretation of historical events.
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Oceanography Web Sites - 1998 ­ 2000, Turnstone Publishing Group / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Web sites designed to accompany a series of science books for middle school students. Each site extends the contents of its companion book through online activities, related news articles and web links, as well as additional resources for the teacher.
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Technical Difficulties - 1997 Harvard College Observatory / Houghton Mifflin Interactive
This web site is designed to accompany a kids' TV series about science. The site offers science experiments and information that enable the kids to help the TV characters solve their "technical difficulties."
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Andrew Carnegie Timeline - 1997 WGBH, Boston
An interactive timeline that accompanied the "American Experience" episode about the life of Andrew Carnegie.
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This Old House - Kitchens - 1995 WGBH, Boston
Based on the popular PBS television series "This Old House," this CD ROM helps people tackle a kitchen renovation project- from fantasizing a "dream kitchen" to drawing up the plans.


Interactive Nova - Earth - 1994 WGBH, Boston
Developed in conjunction with NASA, this software was designed to make studying earth science fun for middle-school students.


Louis Cat Orze - 1993 Berkshire Multimedia Group
A CD ROM adventure game for girls that takes them into 17th century Versailles so they can help solve a mystery about a real-life Princess.


A Visual History of Sailing - 1992 IBM Corporation
This kiosk-based software was developed for the 1992 America's Cup Races and showcases the history of sailing through award-winning, archival photographs and film footage from the collection of the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.

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